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Bluesky state Thursday evening thatover 1 million people signed up for the platformin the last 24 hours , making it one of the fussy days for the companionship . This also mean the social net cut across the chump of 16 million users overall .
The platform ’s announcement comes hours after Instagram head Adam Mosseri read that yarn had seen more than15 million sign - ups in November . He add that the Meta - owned platform has had 1 million foretoken - ups a day for the last three month .
Bluesky also face some teething issues Thursday as service went down for some user , because one of the companionship ’s ISPs had a cable issue that got clubbed with other networking snafus , according toa Bluesky developer .
The decentralised societal web has seen a steady inflow of users in the last few months with different events likeX ’s forbiddance in Brazil , moderation outcome on Threads , andthe late election issue in the U.S.X owner Elon Musk was a prominent supporter of President - elect Donald Trump , and the social networking serving ( formerly known as Twitter ) often promoted pro - Trump viewpoints in users ’ algorithmic provender . After the solution of the U.S. presidential election , more thana million new peoplesigned up on the political platform in a week , Bluesky order Tuesday .
At the time of piece of writing , the polarity - up surge on Bluesky in the last 24 hours also set the app at the top of the gratuitous apps chart on the App Store in the U.S. , fall out by ChatGPT and Threads .
Bluesky is still much smaller overall than Threads , which has over275 million active users , and X. However , the platform ’s CEO Jay Graberposted earlier this weekthat Bluesky has a higher fight than X.
“ We also have a higher per centum of posters than most social sites , which keep up a 90 - 9 - 1 pattern of lurkers - commenters - poster . We have n’t dipped below ~30 % posters , ” she said ina separate post .
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Last calendar month , Bluesky said it raised$15 million in Series A fundingled by Blockchain Capital with participation from Alumni Ventures , True Ventures , SevenX , DarkMode ’s Amir Shevat , and Kubernetes co - creator Joe Beda . On the product front , the company said it planned to launch subscription .
